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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
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We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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taxation and in-kind benefits to the analysis of net contributions. Our findings highlight that migrants on average contributed …
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We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a … remittance income by employing statistical matching to construct counterfactuals that allow us to compare the occurrence in child …
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Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys over the past two decades spanning this transition. We find rising income levels and decreasing … staying in the formal sector is statistically significantly associated with reduced downward mobility and increased income … growth. However, a similar transition from the private sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income …
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measures. It finds that the main source of negative disposable incomes is negative self-employment income, and that high tax …, or even better, than other households in terms of material wellbeing. By contrast, zero-income households are found to be …
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distribution and poverty indices that are sensitive to the distribution of income among the poor. …
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The key challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data is the lack of commensurability of the distances between the ordered categories. This chapter provides a critical review of the most recent theoretical developments addressing this challenge and providing methods for...
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suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …
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